[CentOS] Sound config

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Phil Savoie wrote:
> On 01/16/2013 10:41 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Phil Savoie wrote:
>>>
>>> I have been wrestling with this problem for months now and at my wits
>>> end.  The sound is always very low and if I try to bring the sound
>>> louder by using the sound references icon on the top panel, the sound
>>> is choppy with lots of static.
>> <snip>
>> What are you using to listen?
>>
>> At home, I've found that if, for example, I use realplayer, and set a
>> volume, and then try to use mplayer, or vice versa, I can't make the
>> volume go louder than had been set at max on the first-used player.
>> Close the second, make the first volume louder, and no problem.
>>
>> Have you run the configuration as root, and run the test?
>>
> Which config?  Pulseadio volume control? Alsamixer?
> Because I've ran both.

In kde, which is what I'm using here at work, start menu->settings->system
settings->computer administration->multimedia, but that just gets me test.
I'm still running 5.8 at home, and I think I had something like
system-config-sound.

I s'pose I need to dig into this more....

       mark